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American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Lead with Languages

Multiple resources for those who love, teach, and promote languages

ACTFL Documents


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ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

Go here for guidelines and samples at various proficiency levels in multiple languages

World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

World-ReadinessStandardsforLearningLanguages(3).pdf

Publications on the National Standards


NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements

Can-Do_Statements.pdf


Videos
World Readiness Standards video

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012

General Preface, examples in many languages

Performance Descriptors

PerformanceDescriptorsLanguageLearners(1).pdf

Performance Descriptors Chart: Interpersonal

PDLL-InterpersonalChart.pdf

Performance Descriptors Chart: Interpretive

PDLL-InterpretiveChart.pdf


Performance Descriptors Chart: Presentational

PDLL-PresentationalChart.pdf

Common Core State Standards

ACTFL Crosswalk: Alignment of the National Standards for Learning Languages with the Common Core State Standards
ACTFLCrosswalkFinalAligningCCSSLanguageStandards.pdf


ACTFL Publications

The Keys to Assessing Language Performance

The Keys to the Classroom

Implementing Integrated Performance Assessment

The Keys to Planning for Learning

Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices

Words and Actions: Teaching Languages Through the Lens of Social Justice